Today, automating the control of students’ knowledge with the help of computer equipment and software is an economically beneficial and effective means of managing the learning process. The transition from «paper» to computer testing significantly expands the possibilities of monitoring and evaluating the level of students’ knowledge, providing a quick and objective result.
The «Test» automated system was developed by the «Research Institute of Applied Information Technologies» for computer evaluation.
AS «Test» is an integral part of the automated system «School», and can also be used as a separate software product for conducting intermediate and final knowledge tests of pupils, students, employees and other persons.
The automated system «Test» can be used not only in general and professional educational institutions, but also in higher educational institutions, as well as in enterprises and firms for employee testing.
During 2008 — 2010 The Metropolitan Education Monitoring Center of the Main Department of Education and Science of Kyiv implements a project of computer testing of students’ knowledge using the automated system «Test — Respondent», which is part of the «Test» system. During the implementation of the project, a powerful database of standardized tasks in test form was created, which made it possible to conduct a number of computer studies of the level of knowledge of students of 9-10 grades of secondary schools in Kyiv in the Ukrainian language, mathematics, history, biology, geography, chemistry.
The functionality of the «Test» system allows: - conduct intermediate and final examination of students’ knowledge: test papers, exams, DPA (State Final Attestation);
- determine the average level of knowledge by classes, educational institutions, districts, cities, regions, and the country as a whole according to statistical indicators;
- determine the rating of educational institutions based on statistical data;
- monitor information about the knowledge of the person being tested for several years.
Thus, AS «Test» allows educational institutions and organizations to assess the knowledge of respondents, unify the testing process, instantly process and save test results, provide qualitative and meaningful characteristics of the respondent’s status based on them, predict his development, and as a result, direct training in accordance with his abilities and inclinations.
